SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert - SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Is your SQL Server running slow and you want to speed it up without sharing server credentials? In my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we can work together remotely and resolve your biggest performance troublemakers in less than 4 hours.

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Sep23

SQL SERVER – The Operating System Returned the Error 21(The Device is Not Ready.) While Attempting ‘GetDiskFreeSpace’ on ‘A:\’

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

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I always try to keep myself up-to-date with new released of SQL Server. This blog is part of my learning, while using SQL Server 2017, which I always share with my blog readers. This is the error related to Error 21 about a device not ready.

Sep22

SQL SERVER – New DMV in SQL Server 2017 – sys.dm_os_enumerate_fixed_drives. A Replacement of xp_fixeddrives

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server 2017, SQL Stored Procedure

Looking at the way SQL has evolved, there are changes coming up in SQL Server 2017 which would help it run on Windows and Linux platforms. Let us learn about dm_os_enumerate_fixed_drives.

Sep21

SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 5123, Level 16 – CREATE FILE Encountered Operating System Error 5

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, Windows

This blog is about another common error reported by many DBA to me. He faced error related to create file in OS.

Here is the text of the message.

Sep20

SQL SERVER – 7 Important Things to Remember While Taking Effective Backup

Pinal Dave

SQL Tips and Tricks

SQL Backup, SQL Server

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In this blog post we will discuss 10 things to remember while taking effective backup for SQL Server.

Sep19

SQL SERVER – Login Failed – Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 38 – Reason: Failed to Open the Explicitly Specified Database

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Error Messages, , SQL Server, SQL Server Security

Those who are my regular clients would know that I am very active in replying to emails. My average time of response is around 24 minutes. Many of the emails are for suggestions and I don’t get much time to help everyone, but I do reply to them letting them know the alternatives. If you are following my blog, you would know that I do provide “On Demand” services to help critical issues. This blog is an outcome of one of such short engagement about login failed.

Sep18

SQL SERVER – The Cluster Resource ‘SQL Server’ Could Not be Brought Online Due to an Error Bringing the Dependency Resource

Pinal Dave

SQL

SQL Domain Controller, SQL Error Messages, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster

In my lab setup, I already have a 2 node windows 2012 R2 cluster. I already had one SQL server 2012 instance is working fine without issues. However, when I was trying to install a new additional SQL 2012 instance, the installation reached till the last phase and getting failed with errors related to a cluster resource.

Sep17

How to Create Temp Table From Stored Procedure? – Interview Question of the Week #140

Pinal Dave

SQL Interview Questions and Answers

SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Stored Procedure, Temp Table

Question: How to Create Temp Table From Stored Procedure?

Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 100 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is also a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer (CF-L1) and CrossFit Level 2 Trainer (CF-L2).

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